Every day is Cat Day for these two.
Vashta Nerada, who got the name for doing what Vashta Nerada do and eating everything presented to him as a kitten. He’s super sweet and super chill, but he’s a total mama’s boy and will gladly abandon everything and everyone else to go *flumph* on her lap.

Minerva Mc-friggin-Gonagall, the Best Pud-Pud*, a fluffmonger of dubious provenance, her only history prior to our adopting her being two run-ins with Animal Control, neither listing her as owned. We’ve had her about six months now and while she can still be a bit fearful (as the scratches will testify to), she wants to be someone’s sweet kitty. A total daddy’s girl, too, which is great because I’m “daddy”.

@Weird Eddie: In all fairness, Glenn Beck has expressed horror and remorse at what he helped usher in with Trump, which is more than most conservatives. Even stuffed-shirt assholes like George Will are still pretending that this disgrace happened entirely despite, rather than because, of their long-standing efforts, while Beck has publicly asked “My god, what have I done?”

Since we’re sharing cat stories…I used to have a long-haired cat named Callie, who I would take to get a bath every year or so, whether she needed it or not. I usually took her to a professional groomer for this operation, because not only did Callie dislike baths, she also couldn’t stand to be combed or brushed. I had to deal with copious growling, and determined attempts to bite and/or scratch, sometimes successful…once, she managed to scratch the inside of one of my nostrils, after I let down my guard a little. Well, I described Callie’s usual reaction to being brushed to her groomer, and the woman’s response was, “That SWEET KITTY growls? Callie growls?”. As if this simply wasn’t within the realm of possibility.

“You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn’t I? I mean it was careless of me to make such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person. I thought it was your secret pride.”

About Trump starting a war – I don’t have much to say about that, except I hope he doesn’t.

Today I did something besides work! I saw a movie called Two Soft Things, Two Hard Things – a documentary about LGBTQ rights in Nunavut and the origins of the pride parade there! Here’s a link and here are some things the film said:

-Nunavut is the newest province in Canada (1999). It separated from the Northwest Territories to become a majority Inuit province. I knew this – what I didn’t know was that many Inuit were forced off their land in the 1950s and 1960s to make way for Cold War defense systems. The creation of Nunavut was a way to reclaim some of what was taken.

-Jack Anawak, a former MP and one of the people interviewed, was instrumental in getting the Nunavut legislature to recognize sexual orientation as a human right. At that time, the document didn’t include gender identity/expression as a right, but now it does (as of March 2017)! (The filmmakers said so in a short Q&A after the screening.)

-Although gender roles were fairly strict in pre-Christian Inuit culture (men were usually hunters, women would do the food/clothing prep) there wasn’t a sense of sin/shame around gay sex or alternate sexualities. That came with Christian missions and colonization. And with the influence of the church and other factors such as isolation, it was tough to grow up LGBTQ in Nunavut for a long time. That’s changing, thankfully.

-Two teenagers were interviewed near the end – one was a trans boy, maybe 16 or 17, who talked about his experience being accepted by the school he was in. One was a younger boy, maybe 14 or 15, who’d recently come out. He said that in the past generation, people couldn’t come out as gay in high school but had to wait until they were “really old” – that got some laughs in the theatre. 😀 But it was heartwarming to hear about things changing for the better.

I celebrated Cat Day by finally being the one to do the sticking* instead of holding when Catbeast got his sub-q fluids last night.

Unrelatedly, poor Catbeast fell off of the bathroom counter and sprained his leg over the weekend but is much better now. He even walked into his carrier ON HIS OWN for the vet visit, so I guess he knew he needed to go to the vet.

We are also in the middle of a visit from Kidbeast which has been very pleasant.

*because Husbeast will be gone over the Labor Day holiday and my friend who usually helps me when he’s gone will be on vacation, too. I have gotten a new-fangled harness thingy to help me do the sub-q thing on my own and will try that tonight. *crosses fingers and knocks on wood*

I hope this is ok, I want to see the happy cat posts too, but I need to express this somewhere. Mere months after Casper left us due to adrenal disease, Tyra has osteosarcoma. Getting multiple cats at the same time has downsides 🙁

The post, based on the rest of the pics, seems to be about various US Presidents and the dogs they had while in the White House. I recomend ‘reading’ this post for the pics. Some of them are pretty funny and/or interesting. I rather liked #15, 16, and 17 myself.

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